NFL Disability Plan Draws Congressional Attention

by Les Carpenter/Washington Post

For a quarter of a century John Hogan has burrowed through the pages of disability plans, looking for traps, digging for loopholes. His practice as a disability and Social Security lawyer in the Atlanta suburb of Sugar Hill, Ga., pits him against faceless bureaucracies of America’s insurance industry almost every day, leaving him to wade through its muck of paperwork and regulations.

Yet asked what organization is the worst at providing disability benefits to its employees, he doesn’t hesitate.

The NFL.

“Not that insurance companies are easy,” he said one recent morning from a downtown Atlanta conference room. “But insurance companies follow [government] timelines. They are supposed to rule 45 days after a claim is made. The NFL plan completely ignores it.” READ MORE